Monterey Fun

so here's my wensday morning, we where at the field around 7 am

first up a 275 GTB/4 wich belonged to Omar Shariff at the BlackHawk collection
also present there was a 1st series 500 Mondial PF

after that we paid a visit to the Christies auction
where we among some very other intersting stuff saw this gorgeous Ferrari 275 GTB/6C
and that's its original colour, just stunning

then in the evening we went to the Monterey Jet Center Party
wich had an amazing line-up of cars and some very good food & drinks
among the cars present was the gorgeous Grigio Titanio Enzo, note the GTO in the back :wink:
ofcourse there where also some planes present

so on thursday

we arrived at the polo fields at 6:30 am where they park all the trucks for Pebble Beach, on that day they unload about 3/4 of the entered cars from the trucks and the cars go on a 17 mile drive
man those trucks where huge, 4-6 cars per truck
so the biggest part of the morning was filled with watching them getting unloaded, cleaned and ready for the start at 9, we took of then to wait on them next to sea to get some fun shots of the cars driving
after that we paid a visit to the David Gooding auction wich had some very interesting cars present of wich a 250 MM Spyder, a very cool Bizzarrini and the coolest Duesenberg of them all the famous SJ Speedster Mormon Meteor
and then
it was time
the first trip towards Laguna Seca
and what did we do there?
the coolest thing you can ever do, a photo shoot with around 70 classic racing ferrari's, including 22 250 GTO's :green:
and afterwards we had a great dinnerparty at the track again, life can be so good

hey Matt
it was great to meet you also, i know i still have to mail certain pics to you :wink:
and wel about the event feature's
during the winter they will also be online here, i'm just running out of time at the moment, so i'm just waiting till the racing winter stop wich is in about 6 weeks or so

for the current features that i already did with richard
the monterey week preview:
http://www.supercars.net/NewAutoShows/2004MontereyPreviewp/index.html
pebble beach feature:
http://www.supercars.net/NewAutoShows/2004PebbleBeachConcoursD'Elegancep/index.html

then go out to the book store and try to find Octane magazine
the current issue is nr 16
and on page 10 there are 4 news shots from me
in the next issue there will be an event report, altouhg it hasn't been decided yet wich shots will be featured
and there's a change that i'll get some more shots in the yearbook from World In Red, that's a french magazine with bi-language text

friday then
we kinda overslept and only got to Concorso Italiano around 8 or something
now there was an insanelly amount of Ferrari's, and somehow i couldn't convince myself to stay to long there, i was going crazy from the big crowd, altough i did see several interesting cars and they weren't ferrari's, yes yes don't worry i did see several ferrari's that i wanted :green:
oh yes, and after a long time waiting, andrew finally decided to show up
so the we took a good trip towards The Quail, a Motorsport Gathering
and there i started drooling again, a nice bunch of GTO's on the lawn that where visiting the the event
but on the main lawn of the Quail there was a very nice & BIG field with classic Ferrari's
including to name a few: 625LM, 250 TR, 275 Nart Spyder, 250 LWB Caly Spyder, 250 TDF, 250 Lusso, Enzo, 375 MM
also besides the Qual was the Bonhams auction, so stopped by there very briefly and they, ofcourse had a few ferrari's present with the top ferrari beeing a 1952-54 2.5 Litre Tipo 500
and then, it was back to the track, i know i know, i can't help myself, i'm addicted to tracks
so saw some of the last testdrives of wich included a 330 P, 3 512 M's, 512 S & Daytona
and the round up the day we stopped by the RM Auction
wich had a staggering 16 Ferrari's on the list
including the 166 Abarth, 225 S & 212 Inter Vignale